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Yorke Peninsular and Innes National Park
It was sad to leave the Clare Valley, but Australia is a big country and we wanted to go as far south as we could in the time we had, to do that our next stop would the Innes National Park Yorke Peninsular South Australia. It was a very hot day, the outside temperature was 39 degrees,…
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Around the Clare Valley
I had hopes of a better day than yesterday, and I only mean that in respect to my dreadful driving experience yesterday. The Clare Valley is inland in the North Eastern corner of South Australia, it is a grape growing district of note with more than 40 vineyards. The wineries lie along a narrow 40 kilometre…
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Around Broken Hill
We got a self drive tour map from the information centre and proceeded to do the self drive tour of Broken Hill. The highlights were: 1.Kimtare Reserve at the beginning of the drive. This is an interesting insight into the mining culture; the head from the Kimtare Mine is worth a good look. 2.Joe Keenan…
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Broken Hill and the real outback
We headed to Broken Hill on the Silver City highway. About six kilometres from town, we turned off to look at the Peeri Sands. This collection of sand dunes are brilliant colours, reds and browns. This is a few hectares of dunes in the middle of nowhere. Almost no traffic was heading our way as…